How much can you do with your non dominant hand?

[pinkglass9]

I cant do a thing.

I cant brush my teeth, open jars, brush my hair. I cant even hold a pen properly 😭

I am ambidextrous, so I can do pretty much do the same with both. Maybe a little slower now with my non dominant hand.

I would have said, not much. But then I injured my dominant hand and found my left hand can do more than I thought. Writing with it is hopeless but daily life just about works even though it's slower and clumsier than the hand that's used to doing everything. Necessity and all that.

Not much! As a leftie, I also find it easier to drive in countries that drive on the right side of the road. My mum is ambidextrous but I think she’s a secret leftie as our of her 4 children, 3 of us are lefties (as is my dad).

I am right handed but open jars and envelopes, peel satsumas etc. With my left, i also tie my shoe laces with my left hand dominant. One of my sons is pretty much left handed in everything apart from writing, he's also totally left footed.

I can write legible mirror writing with my left hand, but not the right way round. Can't do mirror writing with my right hand.

I can sew with dominant hand on the top of the fabric and non-dominant on the bottom, so I don't have to keep swapping around, but I think that's normal?

I'm just about ambidextrous so I can do almost everything with either hand.

most things except write.

😂 I’m RH and use a computer mouse with my left. My father was a leftie and the household computer was set up with the mouse on the left and we were forbidden to move it. I can use a mouse with either but more comfortable with my left. I also can’t use 2 fingers to click a mouse on either hand, as our right handed mouse on the left meant you had to have your hand across it diagonally on the button and use the same Index finger across to click the back button.

I’m very proud of my elderly Mum. she had a stroke 6 years ago. She was right handed but is now right side paralysed and non-verbal. however, she has learned to use her left hand very well. She can colour in in her adult colouring books, she can write pretty well. She can do up and undo buttons. Very proud of her ❤️

@pinkglass9 interesting post. At the moment I have no idea what I can do with my left hand apart from, as PP said, hold my iPad whilst replying to this post

im going to spend tomorrow seeing what I can do with my left hand. If I lose a finger or toe it’s down to you!

Everything except write. I could write with either as a young child in pencil, but i am old enough to have written in ink at school and it worked better with the right, so i practiced more with that hand and its now much better.

I can write legibly but not type. I prefer to smoke with my non-dom hand.

😂😂keep me posted!

Most things except write well. I've had two shoulder operations in recent years leading to me having to use my non-dominant hand / arm for everything for a while, and then (once out of the sling) many things for ages. You just get used to it.

I'm severely dyspraxic. I do everything with my right hand except ironing which I do with my left hand.
I have an inkling I was forced to.write with my left hand at school.
I really really struggle with knowing which is my left and my right. When I'm serving customers at work and get cigs out of the display unit my regulars always say "booze side" or "vape side, so I know which way I'm heading!

Sorry that should have said forced to write with my right hand!

my late Aunty was a left hander she used to get whacked on the knuckles and made to sit on her hand at school, she had to learn to write with her RH , how barbaric eh.

My father made me write with my right hand at home. School were actually okay with me using my left hand. That was the 70's.
Got accused of being a pool shark in a pub once, because I kept swapping the pool cue from left to right. I hadn't realised other people don't do that.

I got bitten by a dog on my RH and apart from all the bites, badly sprained my thumb (I couldn't move it AT ALL for 10 days - and then could only start moving it a mm at a time). At the time I was on a Uni course - there was no way around it, I had to learn to write with my LH. It wasn't as fast, and it wasn't as legible but I did manage to take notes. I do do lots of things with my LH normally - I'm fairly ambidextrous about which hand to use for drinking tea for instance...

A lot more than I used to be able to do since I started using a keyboard regularly for work (about 20 years ago). I also do some things deliberately with my weaker hand, especially lifting.

Though I'm right handed, I can write with either hand, and sew and paint and do other craft things.

My mother was left handed, but at school she had her hand tied behind her to force her to write with her right hand. As an adult, she could do lots of things with either hand but was predominately left handed. She was delighted to get a pair of left handed scissors even though she could use either hand to cut out dress patterns etc.

I'm right handed but open jars with my left hand on the lid
Pole fitness I'm also left hand dominant and do spins off my left hand

I am a lefty and had to learn to do quite a lot as most lefties do. I am a sonographer and had to learn to scan right handed as that is the way the room is set up. I use a mouse right handed. I learnt golf right handed as those were the only clubs I had. I can put both ways, handy in mini golf. I can’t cut with my right hand though or write. I struggle with a tin opener. You would be amazed how much the world is built for right handers if you really thought about it. Apparently it’s a nightmare if you are left handed surgeon as well.

I'm fairly ambidextrous about which hand to use for drinking tea for instance

Is this not the same for everybody?

Unless somebody has an injury, do we all not use both hands for things like lifting a cup to our mouth?

Genuine question as now I'm thinking about it, I realise I don't know what most other people do in this respect!

It might be the other way round - ambidextrous people are maybe more likely to be better at piano because being ambidextrous helps. Rather than playing the piano leading to better ambidexterity (is that a word? Ambidextrousness??)